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This is how the kids know they are not in an institution of learning, but a prison for the crime of being juvenile.

What we're also not going to hear is how often devices are misplaced, confiscated without return or just dissappear like socks in a dryer.

Right now AI is looking a lot like a bubble. Wealthy people keep investing in it, but all the AI companies are losing money way faster than their profits. They're selling compute at a vast loss, and if they charged full price, no-one would buy it.

With tin-foil hat firmly in place, this is what the owner class hopes to get out of AI:

1. Automate everything. As Corey Doctorow surmises, they want to automate as much as possible, until the working class just isn't needed anymore, so they can build their Ayn Rand private city utopias (Peter Thiel has plans) and let the rest of us starve somewhere, displaced by the quarries, data centers and automated factories.

2. Create armies of swarming killer drones that are commanded by AI, as Randall Munroe predicted, not only to annex any territory that they can't buy, but to garrison all the working class they've confined to reservations to die of thirst and hunger. And...

3. In the meantime, process all the mass surveillance information in order to predict who is a dissident or a troublemaker or is capable of organizing resistance, so that they can be dispatched early. Also to micromanage their dwindling workforce and make sure women can't go to an abortion provider.

Curiously SCOTUS isn't even trying. I expect them to be Cardinal fucking Richelieu in their arguments, capable of explaining logically how they reached their findings so that any reasonable person (e.g. me) would be able to understand their conclusion.

But no. Dobbs, for instance, is word salad, and there are numerous legal scholars who have dissected Alito's opinion, and concluded not only that it doesn't make sense but reached consensus as to how. When you're the captured US Supreme Court and beholden to absolutely no ethical or professional obligations, you can opine obvious bullshit, and that counts.

Maybe, once we can get AI to stop from hallucinating, we can get it to overhaul court opinions from appeals courts up, and highlight which ones are sound and which are folly. But for now, everyone knows SCOTUS is captured and beholden to a specific agenda and ideology in defiance of logic or the good of the public. And there's nothing (legal) that we can do about it.

Maybe a plumber's brother might help, but that's a different topic.

I agree with you, AI should not be used in legal cases, but good luck with that.

Without paywall

This isn't the first time police have followed up on a license plate without confirming the make and model to assure it's the same vehicle.

It's a preventable problem.

The real problem is that law enforcement don't care, any more than they do when they SWAT the wrong house.

While I can appreciate that it's not a good thing to let AI do your work for you (not just laziness but hallucinations), I can see this is only going to encourage cheaters to use competitors to Claude.

Like Deepseek.

Sans paywall and registration wall

I can totally understand the reason to capture video and conversation during a medical consultation. As someone who has to see a dermatologist from time to time, I've had pictures taken.

The proper protocol is to get consent first, before donning the glasses or pulling out the camera.

And I bet that the perv glasses are not the best option for capturing data for medical analysis.

At that point, yeah, piracy is not merely action against subverted intellectual property laws but action against government restrictions on civil liberties.

It also means consuming restricted content is an act of political resistance.

I don't know! If it only applies to the California State Assembly (and maybe the California State Senate) then that would be an egregious loophole.

For your edification Climate Town's video on Methane (Natural Gas) (on YouTube).

TLDW: Methane was sold to the US as a transition fuel for government subsidies while we invested in renewables. It turns out we weren't intending to transition after all.

Natural gas infrastructure is notoriously leaky, though difficult to monitor. (And the NG industry has gone to great lengths to discourage actual oversight, of course.) And methane is an exceptionally nasty greenhouse gas, considerably worse than CO2.

It also includes a bit about LNG, in which methane is liquified so it can be shipped abroad and other nations can transition to more methane use.